#405/Colin Flavin + Tim Techler + Halsey Smith + Keith York + Alexandra Bregman
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Release Date: 05/19/2025
#422/New Palm Springs with Jill Lewis and John Hreno + SOCOMCM's Edward Peck + Musical Guest Jaimee Paul
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
You all know we love midcentury modern houses in Palm Springs, but what about new ones? These will be the houses we will tour and sip martinis at and give lectures about 40 years from now. Today we’ll talk with one of those architects, Jill Lewis, about a new house in the Desert Palisades area of Palm Springs, along with the landscape architect for that project, John Hreno. Then we’ll meet the leader of SOCOMCM, architect Edward Peck, plus returning jazz vocalist Jaimee Paul.
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#421/Architecture Authors Dominic Bradbury + Adam Stech + Musical Guest Elijah Rock
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Who’s the author of that architecture book on your coffee table? It’s probably written by one of our guests, Dominic Bradbury and Adam Stech. Later on, jazz with returning musical guest Elijah Rock.
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#420/Macy Snyder-Amatucci with John Snyder + Ian Volner + Bill Cotter + Music from Lenore Raphael
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Today, it’s Bartlesville, Oklahoma, home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s skyscraper, the 19-story Price Tower, talking with new owners Macy Snyder-Amatucci and John Snyder, about their plan to bring the tower back to life. Then it’s on to Washington DC and the administration’s plans for architecture, with writer and critic Ian Volner. Next, World’s Fairs with Bill Cotter, and later, music from jazz pianist Lenore Raphael.
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#419/I'll Take Architecture for $1000: Jade Snelling + Catherine Croft + Sarah and Debbie Dykstra + Musical Guests Thomas Lauderdale and Pink Martini
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Do you like architecture? Do you like Jeopardy? Recent Jeopardy contestant Jade Snelling is an archivist at Virginia Tech working at the International Archive of Women in Architecture, preserving the history of women architects around the world. Next we've got Catherine Croft, the Director of the Twentieth Century Society dedicated to protecting Britain’s most significant 20th-century buildings. Then special musical guest, Thomas Lauderdale and Pink Martini.
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#418/Dustin Bramell + Cary O'Dell + Sarah and Debbie Dykstra + Music from Lenore Raphael
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Every serious Modernist fan knows about the Case Study Houses, the legendary program started by John Entenza of Arts and Architecture Magazine in the 1950’s, attracting top and emerging architects to create affordable houses for Los Angeles. We’ll talk with Dustin Bramell, who’s working to create a new series of Case Study Houses; Cary O’Dell on the great Bucky Fuller; mother-daughter duo Sarah and Debbie Dykstra share the story of their Frank Lloyd Wright house, and music by Lenore Raphael.
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#417/Author Pairs: Corey and Margaret Bienert + Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson + Adriene Biondo and Chris Nichols
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Our last set of poolside interviews from Modernism Week 2025 features three fun and exciting author pairs: Corey and Margeret Bienert on midcentury motels, Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson on instructional records, and Adriene Biondo and Chris Nichols on the sporting craze of the 1950's - bowling!
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#416/Sam Lubell + Sarah Broughton + John Rowland + Musical Guest Taurey Butler
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Welcome to USModernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. It’s Monday, August 4, and we’ve got prolific architecture author Sam Lubell, Colorado architects Rowland and Broughton, and musical guest Taurey Butler. Plus, a new addition for the USModernist Archives - we're taking on architecture podcasts that stopped producing new episodes - and preservation websites that have vanished.
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#415/Charles Phoenix + Barton Jahncke + Tiki with Peter Moruzzi and Sven Kirsten
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
From the swanky USModernist compound in Palm Springs during Modernism Week 2025, it’s a full schedule of poolside guests. We’ve got pop culture historian Charles Phoenix, the Craig Ellwood Whisperer Barton Jahncke, and authors Peter Moruzzi and Sven Kirsten on the most fun you can have in a brightly colored Polynesian shirt - tiki bars.
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#414/Architects Tod Williams + Paul Masi + Jon Gentry + Musical Guest Carrie Marshall
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
On the blue plate special today we’ve got a full platter of deliciously talented architects, with Tod Williams, Paul Masi, and Jon Gentry. Later on for a jazzy dessert, music with Carrie Marshall.
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#413/Daughters Of Design Saarinen Bertoia Eames + Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin + Special Musical Guest Ari Shapiro
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Recorded poolside at the swanky USModernist compound during Modernism Week 2025, this week we’re hanging with the Daughters of Design: Susan Saarinen, Celia Bertoia, and Carla Hartman. Back in the studio, authors Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin on architect Evans Woollen, and later, a well-known NPR host who’s toured with Pink Martini, special musical guest Ari Shapiro.
info_outlineFrom poolside at Modernism Week 2025, we’ll talk with Colin Flavin, Halsey Smith, and Tim Techler on the architecture of Walter Gropius in Massachusetts and William Krisel in Palm Springs. Back in the studio, San Diego’s top Modernist realtor and ardent preservationist Keith York has a new book on Craig Ellwood -- and Alexandra Bregman hunts for a Philip Johnson house.
UPDATE: A previous version of this episode gave the incorrect location for Tim Techler's practice. He is based in Newton MA.